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- verb Present participle of
immobilize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
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Examples
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The document is classified, but could include offensive techniques such as immobilizing an enemy's command-and-control networks.
CSO Jeff Bardin 2009
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Or immobilizing city hall, a department store or a stockholders meeting with a flood of demonstrators demanding justice.
Bill Moyers: Saul Alinsky, Who? Bill Moyers 2012
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This seemed to be quite immobilizing and I also noticed how rapid his breathing was.
Maggie Sergio: The Story of Penny, a Hummingbird, and the Power of Saint Francis Maggie Sergio 2011
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This seemed to be quite immobilizing and I also noticed how rapid his breathing was.
Maggie Sergio: The Story of Penny, a Hummingbird, and the Power of Saint Francis Maggie Sergio 2011
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A study in Neurology investigated how the brain facilitates that adjustment and found that immobilizing an arm with a cast or sling appears to slightly reorganize the brain's sensorimotor system, reflecting a transfer of motor skills to the opposite arm and hand.
Slapping On a Skin Patch to Combat Hay Fever Jeremy Singer-Vine 2012
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January came and went pretty fast where we live, with a lot of it buried underneath bitter, immobilizing cold and snow.
Miscellaneous Debris, January 2010 Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews 2010
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He receives training in espionage, in combat, in all manner of spycraft, but when a mysterious “iron fog” begins immobilizing entire CITIES, the time for training is over …
Hero History: Dynamo | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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He shoved her down, hooking her cuffs to a bar in the back of the chair, immobilizing her.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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Meanwhile, the Fed can claim that it also is "immobilizing" reserves that, if loaned into the economy, could be inflationary.
The Fed Has Trapped Itself on Rates George Melloan 2011
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He shoved her down, hooking her cuffs to a bar in the back of the chair, immobilizing her.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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